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Notes on Measure and Integration

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2009-08-10 v3

Abstract

This text grew out of notes I have used in teaching a one quarter course on integration at the advanced undergraduate level. My intent is to introduce the Lebesgue integral in a quick, and hopefully painless, way and then go on to investigate the standard convergence theorems and a brief introduction to the Hilbert space of L2L^2 functions on the interval. The actual construction of Lebesgue measure and proofs of its key properties are relegated to an appendix. Instead the text introduces Lebesgue measure as a generalization of the concept of length and motivates its key properties: monotonicity, countable additivity, and translation invariance.

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@article{arxiv.0802.4076,
  title  = {Notes on Measure and Integration},
  author = {John Franks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.4076},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

This version corrects a few typos. An expanded version of this text has been published as "A (Terse) Introduction to Lebesgue Integration" as vol. 48 of the A.M.S. Student Mathematical Library

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